Users in Pakistan have reportedly been unable to access X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, for 24 hours as of Sunday morning, an outage that comes amid frequent internet failures in the month leading up to, on and since a contentious Feb. 8 national election.

X down in Pakistan after official admits Election rigging

According to a report by Engadget on Thursday (August 17), app researcher Nima Owji shared a screenshot on X which showed that the platform is working on an additional verification feature that requires users to upload a copy of their government-issued ID and snap a selfie. "X keeps working on the ID verification.

X may soon add ID verification to tackle bots

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X down in Pakistan after official admits Election rigging

X may soon add ID verification to tackle bots